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CAPPER, BENJAMIN, eldest son of Benjamin Capper, St. Martin’s in the Fields, London, and Jane Rawlinson (IGI); bapt. St. Martin in the Fields 25 Jan 1785 (IGI); adm.; at school 1798; in school list 1801; adm. Inner Temple 3 Jul 1801. [note will Benjamin Capper, barrister, Attorney-General of Tobago, of St. Luke, Middlesex, proved PCC 4 Jul 1853; also will of Benjamin Pitts Capper, Secretary of State’s Office, St. Mary, Islington, proved PCC 12 Sep 1850]

CAPPER, FRANCIS, son of Francis Capper, Bushey, Herts., barrister, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Bennet, St. Paul’s Churchyard, bookseller; b. 24 Aug 1735; adm. Sep 1742 (Clarke's); KS 1749; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1753, matr. 27 Jun 1753, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1753 - void 2 Oct 1760, expiry year of grace as R. Monk Soham from 2 Nov 1759; BA 1757; MA 1760; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 25 Feb 1746/7; ordained priest (Oxford) 23 Sep 1759; Rector of Monk Soham and East Soham, Suffolk, from 1759; author, The Faith and Belief of every sincere Christian; m. 6 Nov 1759 Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Pierson, banker; d. 13 Nov 1818. DNB.

CAPPER, FRANCIS, son of Francis Capper (qv); b. 14 Jan 1761; at school under Smith (based on Hickey’s record of his presence at OWW dinner at Calcutta in 1783 (Hickey, iii, 245-6, but Hickey’s recollection may have been inaccurate); Cadet, EICS Madras; Ensign, Madras Native Infantry 17 Apr 1778; Lieut., 11 Jan 1782; Capt., 6 Aug 1794; Maj., 4 Oct 1798; Lieut. -Col., 4th Native Infantry, 17 Jun 1800; served with distinction in India; Adjutant-Gen., Madras; implicated in disputes between Commander-in-Chief, Madras, and the civil authorities there; m. 23 Nov 1791 Elizabeth Emily, sister of Pasley Weir Fraser (qv); drowned in wreck of the Lady Jane Dundas off Madagascar, on his return from India, 14 Mar 1809]. [But note that Misc. Gen. et Her., 4th series, ii, 81, also states that he was educated at Westminster, so the identification of him as an OW does not rest solely on Hickey]

CAPPER, J.; b.; in school lists 1801, May and Oct 1803; left Nov 1803.

CAPPER, JOSEPH, brother of Benjamin Capper (qv); bapt. St. Martin in the Fields 1 Oct 1786 (IGI); in school list 1801; probably left 1801.

CAPPER, RICHARD, second son of Richard Capper, Bushey, Herts., and of Lincoln’s Inn, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of John Hyde, Falmouth, Jamaica, and Finchley, Middlesex; bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 27 Oct 1701 (sic, IGI); adm. (aged 12) May 1715; in under school list 1716; apprenticed to Edward Gee, Six Clerks Office, 4 Oct 1716; adm. Lincoln’s Inn, 5 May 1720; adm. solicitor 14 Nov 1730. [He or his father occurs JP Herts 1733-54; presumably Richard Capper, Bushey, Herts., will proved PCC 16 Jan 1759]. [Richard Capper occurs as Commissioner of Bankrupts in annual lists 1755-64 (sic), apparently as a barrister]